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Dr Ianis Siriopol ianis.siriopol@gmail.com   My name is Ianis Siriopol and I have just finished the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Training Program of „Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania.  During these five years, I practised in several Anesthesia and Intensive Care Departments in University Hospitals in different surgical fields. From 2020, I am currently working at “Regional Institute of Oncology” Iasi, one of the largest hospitals in our region. He...

Chief editor note: We continue to publish scientific information related to the current Coronavirus pandemics, keeping our readers updated with the latest news on this topic. Paweł Piwowarczyk1, Michał Borys1 The Second Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland piwowarczyk.pawel@gmail.com   Recently, some authors have suggested that Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination might be a factor that decreases the risk of infection cau...

Did you know that – allowing patients to become hypothermic intraoperatively can have devastating consequences for our patients? Several recent studies have shown that up to 50 % of our patients have temperatures of <36 degrees C in the immediate postoperative period despite several international and national guidelines designed to educate and guide the perioperative team in how to avoid this phenomenon. Widening of thermoregulatory thresholds and triphasic drop of temperature together...

Kinga Mastalerz kinga.mastalerz@yahoo.fr   When I applied for the TEP, I was based at Szpital Miejski Specjalistyczny Hospital in Krakow, Poland. Working abroad was always my dream. During medical school, I spent 6 months in Belgium on an Erasmus scholarship and I knew exactly how much it gives you to find yourself in a different country, with a foreign language, culture and totally different attitude. I applied for the Trainee Exchange Programme to relive that experience, only in a “grow...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor gurman@bgu.ac.il   One of the stories which I would never forget was the one told to me by a good friend, a surgeon, who was trained for two years in one of the best known Toronto hospitals. It happened during the seventh decade of the last century. He had the position of chief resident for one full year, during which his visits home were so rare, that from time to time his wife used to bring their children to the hospital, to visit their father! These tim...

Helen Brewer helen.brewer@esaic.org   A week is a long time in politics, as they say. But boy, what a difference a year makes! We recap here on what ESAIC has done in the public affairs sphere in these last twelve months and what it has achieved. The 2020 Patient Safety Policy Summit: ESAIC marked the 10th Anniversary of the Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety In Anaesthesiology by organising the 2020 Patient Safety Policy Summit which took place on 3 March. Echoing WHO Resolution 68/15...

The ESAIC Mentorship Programme was developed 5 years ago to promote the professional development of young researcher and established investigators. The one-to-one mentoring model enables the development of a personal relationship and provides individual support for the mentee. Every year up to 15 ‘pairs’ of mentors and mentees are matched, and they work together for 2 years with regular contact and feedback to the ESAIC Research Team. Prof. Claude Meistleman successfully oversaw four cohorts...

Margarita Borislavova drborislavova.m@gmail.com   I am a final year resident in anesthesiology and intensive care at Tokuda Hospital Acibadem City Clinic in  Sofia, Bulgaria. After several years of applying for the ESAIC exchange program, I got a positive answer in November 2018 and I was thrilled.   Why this program/why this centre? Within the last 2 years of my residency, I have come to see how important programs of this scale are. Theoretically, we all know how crucial the exchange...

Dear Colleagues, We are inviting our community to complete the most recent survey endorsed by the ESAIC. The aim of this survey is to investigate the relationship between severity and visceral fat in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Following the ESAIC’s institutional goal of raising the standards of the speciality by fostering and encouraging education, research, scientific progress and exchange of information. The information we receive from our members through this survey helps enormously...

Ana Luísa Vieira, Cândida Infante, Eunice Mendes, Mafalda Castro, Mariana Asseiro, Pedro Camões, Gustavo Norte Anaesthesiology Residents, Department of Anaesthesiology, Coimbra University Hospital Center, Coimbra,  Portugal.   Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the novel coronavirus that is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and first emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.1,2 Due to its progressive worldwide expansion, on...